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From: Josh Boyer <jdub@us.ibm.com>
To: Martin Egholm Nielsen <martin@egholm-nielsen.dk>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: jffs2_get_inode_nodes(): Data CRC failed on NAND device
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:03:33 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1108497813.7801.12.camel@windu.rchland.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1108496777.7801.9.camel@windu.rchland.ibm.com>

On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 13:46 -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 20:22 +0100, Martin Egholm Nielsen wrote:
> > Well, as someone told me the other day on the IRC-channel, the 
> > writebuffer is flushed automatically if the buffer has not been accessed 
> > for X (2?) seconds (controlled by the VFS, right?)...
> > 
> > Correct me if I'm wrong...
> 
> Not quite.  The write buffer is flushed every 5 seconds, unless you tune
> it using the /proc entry.  It's controlled by kupdated, which syncs the
> supers, which flushes the write buffer in JFFS2.
> 
> If the write buffer contains GC data, that isn't flushed at all.

Just to clarify that, if the buffer contains _only_ GC data it isn't
flushed.  If it contains GC + inode data, all of that data is.

josh

  reply	other threads:[~2005-02-15 20:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-14 17:08 jffs2_get_inode_nodes(): Data CRC failed on NAND device Frédéric Janot
2005-02-14 17:24 ` Estelle HAMMACHE
2005-02-14 17:58   ` Frédéric Janot
2005-02-14 18:04     ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-02-15  0:03       ` David Woodhouse
2005-02-15 19:22         ` Martin Egholm Nielsen
2005-02-15 19:46           ` Josh Boyer
2005-02-15 20:03             ` Josh Boyer [this message]
2005-02-16  7:38               ` Martin Egholm Nielsen
2005-02-14 18:08     ` Josh Boyer

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